Finally, giving lions historians is an ethical practice, not a slogan. Participatory research, multilingual archives, equitable citation, and reparative access policies shift authority toward those historically narrated by others. Classroom curricula that pair official documents with oral histories, novels, and community records teach students to read for power as well as fact. When we build such habits, the history of the hunt becomes less a eulogy for the hunter and more a shared account of the forest—where every voice can name what it has seen. [...]